Some republicans have been leaping through incredibly convoluted hoops in their attempts to justify supporting Judge Roy Moore in the special Senate election in Alabama, in light of the revelations from at least five women claiming that Moore groped or sexually assaulted them when they were teenagers and he was in this thirties.
In addition to strong support from Pres. Trump -- who told reporters "he totally denies it, he says it didn't happen," last week -- on Monday night (Nov. 27) Joel Pollak, a senior editor at far-right news site Breitbart went even further in search of a reason to back the controversial candidate: music. Speaking to CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, Pollak pointed to former Beatle Ringo Starr's 1973 cover of rockabilly singer Johnny Burnette's 1960 Sherman Brothers-penned hit "You're Sixteen" as an example of the normalization of sexual relations between adults and underage teens.